Time-warp to 2004, pay $4,500 and get Twitter.com

For the entrepreneur out there building a time machine, here’s a way to put your device to profitable use. Go back to 2004 and buy the domain Twitter.com for $4,500.

A reader recently pointed me to the Internet Archive entries for the site — here’s the domain for sale in all its latent glory.

Twitter, of course, didn’t even start with its current name. It launched with the more Web 2.0-y and much harder-to pronounce Twttr name, back in July of 2006. It changed its name to Twitter shortly thereafter. I’m not sure how much it ended up paying for the domain. But, by the time I started hearing local buzz about Twitter in the winter of 2007, the Twttr name was long gone.

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